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We are seeing a lot of references to KYC/AML in the ICO/STO space. Lots of shops include this function as part of their pitch to create smart contracts and host the offering on their platform.
The problem is that what they are doing in most cases isn’t actually KYC/AML and this could lead to confusion in the future.
KYC, or “know your client,” is the process that a regulated entity like a broker-dealer goes through in order to establish not just the identity of its client, but also that client’…

We are seeing a lot of references to KYC/AML in the ICO/STO space. Lots of shops include this function as part of their pitch to create smart contracts and host the offering on their platform.
The problem is that what they are doing in most cases isn’t actually KYC/AML and this could lead to confusion in the future.
KYC, or “know your client,” is the process that a regulated entity like a broker-dealer goes through in order to establish not just the identity of its client, but also that client’…

We are seeing a lot of references to KYC/AML in the ICO/STO space. Lots of shops include this function as part of their pitch to create smart contracts and host the offering on their platform.
The problem is that what they are doing in most cases isn’t actually KYC/AML and this could lead to confusion in the future.
KYC, or “know your client,” is the process that a regulated entity like a broker-dealer goes through in order to establish not just the identity of its client, but also that client’…

We are seeing a lot of references to KYC/AML in the ICO/STO space. Lots of shops include this function as part of their pitch to create smart contracts and host the offering on their platform.
The problem is that what they are doing in most cases isn’t actually KYC/AML and this could lead to confusion in the future.
KYC, or “know your client,” is the process that a regulated entity like a broker-dealer goes through in order to establish not just the identity of its client, but also that client’…

All companies that accept investments under Reg CF need to provide an annual update to their investors, to be filed on the SEC’s EDGAR system on Form C-AR and posted on the company's own website. It’s really important that as an investor, you know what the company has done with your money in any given year.
We searched for all companies that completed a successful fundraising (filed a Form C-U), from the date Regulation CF launched in 2016 to April 30, 2017, and found 29.3% of them did not…

All companies that accept investments under Reg CF need to provide an annual update to their investors, to be filed on the SEC’s EDGAR system on Form C-AR and posted on the company's own website. It’s really important that as an investor, you know what the company has done with your money in any given year.
We searched for all companies that completed a successful fundraising (filed a Form C-U), from the date Regulation CF launched in 2016 to April 30, 2017, and found 29.3% of them did not…

All companies that accept investments under Reg CF need to provide an annual update to their investors, to be filed on the SEC’s EDGAR system on Form C-AR and posted on the company's own website. It’s really important that as an investor, you know what the company has done with your money in any given year.
We searched for all companies that completed a successful fundraising (filed a Form C-U), from the date Regulation CF launched in 2016 to April 30, 2017, and found 29.3% of them did not…

All companies that accept investments under Reg CF need to provide an annual update to their investors, to be filed on the SEC’s EDGAR system on Form C-AR and posted on the company's own website. It’s really important that as an investor, you know what the company has done with your money in any given year.
We searched for all companies that completed a successful fundraising (filed a Form C-U), from the date Regulation CF launched in 2016 to April 30, 2017, and found 29.3% of them did not…

No, not a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but some musings on an aspect of the more complicated aspects of securities law relating to what needs to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, part of what we law bores refer to as “the metaphysics.”
Some investments happen in two stages. You buy convertible notes and then they convert into shares. You are issued warrants and you exercise those warrants. You get the idea. The important thing from the point of view of registration under the…

No, not a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but some musings on an aspect of the more complicated aspects of securities law relating to what needs to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, part of what we law bores refer to as “the metaphysics.”
Some investments happen in two stages. You buy convertible notes and then they convert into shares. You are issued warrants and you exercise those warrants. You get the idea. The important thing from the point of view of registration under the…